i don't have time for OS stuff atm. All i need are two working systems if one should not be healthy. My testing
version is fine, but there are little issues with sid. Nautilus function 'open as administrator' opens Audacious,
in gnome alsamixer master volume is always at 0% and Tone disabled after a restart. What could it be? I prefer
my sid, can't say why and would like to fix it

Beware of the upgrades to initscripts, sysv-rc, sysvinit and sysvinit-utils which have just appeared in the Unstable repository. On restarting my computer, keyboard and mouse were disabled. These packages are not held back when running apt-get upgrade.

I came across this issue before, when these upgrades were still in the Experimental repository. Evidently the maintainers have moved them to the Unstable repository without noticing the problem.

Brian49 wrote:Beware of the upgrades to initscripts, sysv-rc, sysvinit and sysvinit-utils which have just appeared in the Unstable repository. On restarting my computer, keyboard and mouse were disabled. These packages are not held back when running apt-get upgrade.

Hi Brian, I did the upgrade and had no mouse or keyboard issues, so I wonder if it applies to some setups and not others. My keyboard and mouse are both USB connected running on an Intel based motherboard and running LMDE/Sid 64bit.

Beware of the upgrades to initscripts, sysv-rc, sysvinit and sysvinit-utils which have just appeared in the Unstable repository. On restarting my computer, keyboard and mouse were disabled.

Full DU of my XFCE/SID partiton -- cursor is frozen at login window, keyboard does not work.
(This is a brand new install yesterday, with no special tweak, nothing from experimental).

With those packages ( initscripts, sysv-rc, sysvinit and sysvinit-utils) held back on a separate partition (Shell/SID) and all other packages upgraded, mouse, and keyboard function normally.
Greg must be smiled upon today...

This did happen to me also.
On a AMD chipset if that has anything to do with it.
I am using a wired usb keyboard and wireless usb mouse. Both were dead.
Could this be kernel specific.
Could I try a different kernel?

Brian49 wrote:Beware of the upgrades to initscripts, sysv-rc, sysvinit and sysvinit-utils which have just appeared in the Unstable repository. On restarting my computer, keyboard and mouse were disabled. These packages are not held back when running apt-get upgrade.

I came across this issue before, when these upgrades were still in the Experimental repository. Evidently the maintainers have moved them to the Unstable repository without noticing the problem.

Brian49 wrote:
Beware of the upgrades to initscripts, sysv-rc, sysvinit and sysvinit-utils which have just appeared in the Unstable repository. On restarting my computer, keyboard and mouse were disabled. These packages are not held back when running apt-get upgrade.

I came across this issue before, when these upgrades were still in the Experimental repository. Evidently the maintainers have moved them to the Unstable repository without noticing the problem.

Wondered why the siduction repos had their own versions of these packages a couple of weeks ago. Apparently they knew something.

Sorry for the stupid question but how do you recover if you can't use your keyboard or mouse? I know you can generally boot from a rescue cd and access the filesystem, but it seems you would need to revert to an old package via apt-get or dpkg and I don't know how you do that on just a mounted filesystem. I don't want to take up many resources here, a link or two for me to learn about would be great. Thanks.

For me, I have learned that running SID I have to make frequent backups with Clonezilla. Ten Minutes to clone a partition, and about the same to restore.
Sometimes you can fix a borked installation, sometimes, not so easy. Some times you don't want to mess around and get back on quickly. That's the time to restore partition with Clonezilla. That's what i did with my above problem.

GeneC wrote:For me, I have learned that running SID I have to make frequent backups with Clonezilla. Ten Minutes to clone a partition, and about the same to restore.
Sometimes you can fix a borked installation, sometimes, not so easy. Some times you don't want to mess around and get back on quickly. That's the time to restore partition with Clonezilla. That's what i did with my above problem.

Thanks for the reply. I don't know that it's broken, I haven't bothered to reboot yet to find out I was just curious. Perhaps I should follow the advice of the above post and add the sidux repositories so I can "downgrade."

Either downgrade to testing version, or add the sidcution repo and install their fixed packages.

deb http://packages.siduction.org/razorqt/ unstable main
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
should install the fixed packages as they are a higher version than the packages in the 'official' Debian sid repo.

I'm afraid the Siduction updates don't solve the problem here, when running the 3.4 trunk kernel from Experimental. The Unstable updates don't work with either the official 3.2 kernel or the Liquorix 3.4 kernel; I haven't tried the Siduction updates with those kernels.

Last edited by Brian49 on Fri Jun 08, 2012 7:24 am, edited 1 time in total.

Beware of the upgrades to initscripts, sysv-rc, sysvinit and sysvinit-utils which have just appeared in the Unstable repository. On restarting my computer, keyboard and mouse were disabled.

Full DU of my XFCE/SID partiton -- cursor is frozen at login window, keyboard does not work.
(This is a brand new install yesterday, with no special tweak, nothing from experimental).

With those packages ( initscripts, sysv-rc, sysvinit and sysvinit-utils) held back on a separate partition (Shell/SID) and all other packages upgraded, mouse, and keyboard function normally.
Greg must be smiled upon today...